Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society

The Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society is a society of Saint Petersburg mathematicians. It was dissolved and subsequently revived twice, each time changing its name:

• Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (1890-1905)
• Petrograd Physical and Mathematical Society (1921-1930)
• Leningrad Mathematical Society (1959-1990)
• Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society (1990-)

Former presidents

• V.G. Imshenetskii (1890-1892)
• Julian Sochocki (1892-1905)
• A.V. Vassiliev (1921-1923)
• N.M. Günter (1923-1930)
• Yuri Linnik (1959-1965)
• S.M. Lozinskii (1965-1985)
• D.K. Faddeev (1985-1989)
• Olga Ladyzhenskaya (1990-1998)
• Anatoly Vershik (1998-2008)
• Yuri Matiyasevich (2008-)

Honorary members

• Aleksandr Danilovich Aleksandrov
• Sergei Natanovich Bernstein
• Leonid Vitaliyevich Kantorovich
• Mark Grigoryevich Krein
• Olga Aleksandrovna Ladyzhenskaya
• Andrey Andreyevich Markov
• Solomon Grigor'evich Mikhlin
• Nikolai Aleksandrovich Shanin
• Vladimir Ivanovich Smirnov
• Victor Abramovich Zalgaller

"Young mathematician" prize

The "Young Mathematician" prize has been awarded since 1962. A (partial) list of the winners is the following one:

• Yuri Matiyasevich, 1970
• Eugene Dynkin, 1976
• Andrei Suslin, 1977
• Alexander Merkurjev, 1982
• Nicolai Reshetikhin, 1988
• Grigori Perelman, 1991
• Ivan Fesenko, 1992
• Stanislav Smirnov, 1997

See also

• List of Mathematical Societies

External links

• Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society homepage
• O'Connor, John J., and Edmund F. Robertson. "Saint Petersburg Mathematical Society" and "The Petrograd Physico-Mathematical Society". MacTutor History of Mathematics archive.